Emplastrum Stomachicum, or a Plaster for the Stomach.
Take of Gum Tacamahacca four ounces, the best La∣danum and Benjamin, of each two ounces; Colophony and yellow Wax, of each an ounce; our Balsamum Absin∣thiacum
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Take of Gum Tacamahacca four ounces, the best La∣danum and Benjamin, of each two ounces; Colophony and yellow Wax, of each an ounce; our Balsamum Absin∣thiacum
and Balsam of Peru, of each half an ounce; di∣stilled oyl of Origanum, Mother of Thyme, Zedoary and Rosemary, of each a scruple; white Turpentine a suffici∣ent quantity to make it into a Plaster of a just consi∣stence.
Virtue and Use. It frees the Stomach from crudity and wind, and helps the weakness and distention of it; for it heats and wonderfully helps digestion, and stays Vomiting and Loathing, if it be laid to the Sto∣mach, and there continued.